So, like all 10 year olds, my step-son wanted to have a sleep over last night. My wife and I usually don't have too much of a problem with this. It usually just means a little extra noise and snacking, which is all good. Except this time, it came with a bonus for the Inkman and Mrs. Ink.
Initially, little Ink had two friends over and they we're playing in his room. Upon the group of friends passing through living room, I noticed that all too familiar stench of kid BO. It doesn't smell quite like adult BO, it has a nastier, in need of a shower type odor to it. I turned to my wife and whispered, " one of those kids reeks".
Having already schooled little Ink about deodorant, showers and smelling good; I was confident he wasn't the culprit. At this point, knowing it was one of the two friends, we needed to take action. Initially we sprayed the rooms with FaBreeze, which worked for about 5 min. So action was needed.
We called out our kid in order to help act out our master plan. We told him of the situation, and after laughing for 5 min, we enlisted him as a anti-BO fighter. Upon entering his room, he tells his friends that one of them smell, much to my horror. I thought for sure he was going to offend someone.
Little did I know that a Tag body spray/deodorant fight breaks out covering all the boys with a pleasant smell as well as masking the nasty BO smell within the rooms. So I guess in the end telling someone about their BO and blasting them with doedorant is the best approach to ridding my vicinity of foul smelling people. Maybe I can try this appraoch at work.